Love the Georgical Inquiries!

apologies! didn't make much sense here, but your comment had me thinking

there is some stuff from the latter 17c that starts to label particular plants as weeds (in arable contexts), but the term seems to have a more fluid early modern jurisdiction, associated with the self-individuating potencies of all sorts of (postlapsarian) stuff

or the indexing of a certain kind of iterative, 'environmental' labour (thinking here about the use of weed-ash as fertiliser, or the granting of weeding rights, often in the same breath as rights of pasturage or turbary, in period land leases)

hello! this rings very true to me w regards to early modern 'weeds', very rarely (to me at least) the categorisation of particular botanical identities (even less species), or akin to modern ideas of 'plants in the wrong place', more often a stage in the lifecycle of Created matter